“On Wednesday, the SBC approved a resolution criticizing the Boy Scouts new policy, but not go so far as to recommend churches cut ties altogether with scouting groups.”
The above is what I was trying to say.
It wouldn’t matter if they did “recommend” it or not. Local churches are autonomous. The “official” SBC position on things means very little — unless the local church is completely off the deep end theologically and morally, and then their messengers can be refused seating at the national convention and the church effectively have no voice in the proceedings, effectively booting them out. This isn’t a “top-down” power set-up like most every other denomination.